Claim: There is no tap water quality crisis in the United States.

Claim: There is no tap water quality crisis in the United States.

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"Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’ government study finds"

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Tom Haws
Besides the initial problems and needs for proofreading/refining/editing the claim itself, this evidence is problematic because all substances are everywhere. The questions that matter are 1. absolute health effect, 2. contextual health effect (as part of the complete package of the "tap water" product), and 2. relative health effect (compared to other competing products).
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) reported in 2021 that "For too many Americans, turning on their faucets for a glass of water is like pouring a cocktail of chemicals. Lead, arsenic, the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and many other substances are often found in drinking water at potentially unsafe levels"

"there is not enough funding to help replace lead pipelines and clean up our drinking water"

"federal water safety standards aren’t keeping pace with the latest science on contaminants – some regulations haven’t been updated in more than 50 years"

"Here’s the well-kept secret about existing drinking water standards: Legal doesn’t necessarily mean safe."

"Even for chemicals that are regulated, the legal limit is often hundreds of times higher than the health standards recommended by scientists and public health agencies. Too often, legal limits are based more on what can be achieved in terms of treatment costs, and less on public health."

Using the EWG Tap Water Database search feature, nowhere I searched didn't have what the EWG reports as toxic levels of various chemicals in the water.

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"The United States has one of the safest and most reliable drinking water systems in the world. Every year, millions of people living in the United States get their tap water from a public community water system."

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"The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets standards and regulations for many different contaminants in public drinking water, including disease-causing germs and chemicals."

"The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was passed by Congress in 1974, with amendments added in 1986 and 1996, to protect our drinking water. Under the SDWA, EPA sets the standards for drinking water quality and monitors states, local authorities, and water suppliers who enforce those standards. As part of the SDWA, EPA has set maximum contaminant levels, as well as treatment requirements for over 90 different contaminants in public drinking water."

"National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) are standards and treatment techniques that public water systems must follow. These regulations protect public health by limiting contaminant levels in drinking water."

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Tom Haws
"...public water systems *must* follow."
Nancy Drew
Those EPA standards are outdated

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/state-of-american-drinking-water.php

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